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Salma Elmalaki
Google Scholar ID: 6QKACtcAAAAJ
EECS Department at University of California, Irvine
Human Factors
CPS
Mobile Computing
Extended Reality
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Publications
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APPA: Adaptive Preference Pluralistic Alignment for Fair Federated RLHF of LLMs
2026
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Can LLMs Discern the Traits Influencing Your Preferences? Evaluating Personality-Driven Preference Alignment in LLMs
2026
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From Dead Neurons to Deep Approximators: Deep Bernstein Networks as a Provable Alternative to Residual Layers
2026
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A Systematic Evaluation of Preference Aggregation in Federated RLHF for Pluralistic Alignment of LLMs
2025
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M-CALLM: Multi-level Context Aware LLM Framework for Group Interaction Prediction
2025
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GIST: Group Interaction Sensing Toolkit for Mixed Reality
2025
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What Sensors See, What People Feel: Exploring Subjective Collaboration Perception in Mixed Reality
2025
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PluralLLM: Pluralistic Alignment in LLMs via Federated Learning
2025
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Academic Achievements
NSF CAREER Award (2024–2028) for 'Psychology-aware Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical-System (HCPS): Methodologies, Algorithms, and Deployment'
NSF CRII Award (2021–2023) for 'Society-in-the-Loop Personalized Computing'
Best Paper Award and Best Community Paper Award at MobiCom 2015
Early Career Teaching Excellence Award, UCI Samueli School of Engineering (2023)
Professor of the Year Award from Engineering Student Council (ESC), EECS Department (2023)
Honorable Mention, Dr. De. Gallow Professor of the Year Award, UCI (2022)
Advised student Armand Ahadi-Sarkani won Gold Medal at ACM SIGBED Student Research Competition (SRC’21, undergraduate category)
CORCL Award from UCI Academic Senate (2020, 2021, 2022)
MERI Seed Fund Award, Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Initiative, SSoE, UCI (2020)
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2016–2018)
Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Scholarship (2018)
Best Paper Award, Microsoft Research Student Summit on Mobility, Systems, and Networking (2015)
Background
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Director of the Pervasive Autonomy Lab
Research focuses on integrating human factors into cyber-physical systems, emphasizing performance, privacy, reliability, fairness, and adaptability
Research draws on embedded systems, human modeling, machine learning, and mobile computing
Co-Director of the Professional Master of Engineering program in Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS)
Co-authors
16 total
Mani Srivastava
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
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Tianyu Zhao
Research Assistant, UC Irvine
PUNEET GUPTA
UCLA Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair Professor of the University of California Irvine
Athina Markopoulou
Professor, EECS, UC Irvine
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